Nearly 200 marijuana plants found at RV home

Two people were arrested Sunday after more than one hundred marijuana plants and 100 pounds of the processed drug were found at a Redwood Valley home, the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office reported.

According to the MCSO, deputies served a search warrant on Pepperwood Court in Redwood Valley at 11 a.m. Nov. 4 after receiving complaints about a possible commercial marijuana-growing operation.

At the residence, deputies reportedly located 187 growing marijuana plants, 70 pounds of drying marijuana and more than 100 pounds of processed and packaged marijuana.

Deputies also reportedly found a small package of another controlled substance in the bedroom of the suspects, who were both on probation for similar offenses. The suspects were identified as Melanie D. Hargis, 29, and Jedidiah W. Jones, 33.

Hargis was at the home at the time of the search and was arrested suspicion of cultivating and possessing marijuana for sale, possession of a controlled substance and violating her probation. She was booked into the Mendocino County Jail under $30,000 bail.

Jones was not at the house when the search warrant was served but was found later that afternoon in the parking lot of the jail when he tried to bail Hargis out. He was then booked into jail under the same charges and also under $30,000 bail.